Seneca Quotes

Make haste to live and think each of your days to be an individual life.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality

But he has no fear; unconquered he looks down from a lofty height upon his sufferings.

He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.

Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.

Quemadmodum omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus: non vitae sed scholae discimus.

Inwardly everything should be different, but out outward face should conform with the crowd.

This spirit thrusts itself forward, confident of commendation and esteem. It is superior to all, monarch of all it surveys; hence it should be subservient to nothing, finding no task too heavy, and nothing strong enough to weigh down the shoulders of a man.

Just as one of small stature can be a perfect man, so a life of small compass can be a perfect life.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Some are chained by public office, others by wealth; some carry the burden of high birth, some of low birth; some bow beneath another’s empire, some beneath their own; some are kept in one place by exile, others by priesthoods. All life is a servitude.

No one can lead a happy life if he thinks only of himself.

You should keep learning to the end of your life.

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.